Another 60 percent chance day

Instead of thunderboomers summer arrived.

That's what, about 27C?  That's full summer costume conditions and I went with it.  Shorts, sleeveless jersey sans base layer and a slew of sunscreen.  The costume choices were a good thing too because about the last two miles or so I felt genuinely overheated, actual perspiration occurred.

I first noticed this really nice old DeSoto and cedar canoe a couple of years ago at the Fair. I am not positive but I think that's a 1946 DeSoto.

For young people who have never heard of a DeSoto that was the third tier in the four and then later five tier selection of automobiles manufactured by Chrysler.  You know, sort of like the Oldsmobile of Chrysler.  Having a little trouble with Oldsmobile too?

Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler, Imperial.

Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac.

Ford, Mercury, (this where the Edsel was supposed to go), Lincoln.

Completely useless 1950s car knowledge.

I assume that the car and canoe belong to the owner of Giggles' Campfire Grill.  With a log building and a log pavilion out back with rough hewn picnic tables it is pretty obvious that they are trying to establish some sort of old timey fishing camp ambiance.  We generally make that place one of our first stops at the Fair when we go, the walleye in a boat (or is it on a stick) has been consistently excellent.

I no longer approve of the way that old car and canoe are being treated.  They appear to be a permanent installation.  They are NOT taken away somewhere for storage and brought out for events.  They appear to be there all the time.

As a result the elements are winning and both the car and the canoe are starting to look a bit ragged.  The paint job on the car is deteriorating and a close look at the canoe reveals that the varnish there on the bow is also wearing away.  Both of those things are likely fairly valuable assets, Giggles ought to reconsider how they are being used.

When we moved into this house there was an apple tree in the back yard.  I think we got a few apples off it once.  Then it died in the year following the big drought of I think the summer of  '85.  I personally cut it down, removed the stump and then went over to Bachmann's at their former location on Nicollet where I procured a replacement.  I brought it home in the back seat of my car so I know that this is a Beacon, a Minnesota hardy apple.  To the best of our recollection we have usually never had any apples and when we do get an apple, that's usually about it, an apple.

Well, TOPWLH noticed this while out checking out her grass plantings.

With all of the tree work we had to have last year after the storm we had the tree guys do some trimming off the apple tree.  We have long since stopped thinking of it as a fruit tree, it is merely an ornamental and a shade tree.

This year looks like we are going to get apples.

This year's pictures of flowering trees turns out to include a picture of the tree in our back yard.  Isn't this fun?